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Hurricane Beryl Was a Warning Shot for Houston

Recovery Diva

From Inside Climate News: Hurricane Beryl Was a Warning Shot for Houston The category one storm dealt the city disastrous damage. Houston’s first direct hit from a hurricane in decades showed how vulnerable the nation’s energy capital remains.

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Acronis True Image: A familiar name returns!

Acronis

Welcome back to Acronis True Image, a leader in digital protection for over 20 years, trusted by over 5.5 million users globally. With a history of preventing more than one million cyberattacks, Acronis True Image stands as a legacy of reliable and secure personal data protection.

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Why Are So Many Companies Stuck in GRC? It’s Time for a Change!

LogisManager

Why Are So Many Companies Stuck in GRC? It’s Time for a Change! Last Updated: July 16, 2024 Let’s be real: the risk management world is buzzing, but far too many companies remain entrenched in outdated Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software. Seriously, why? And more importantly, how many risk management failures will it take for companies to reevaluate their relationship with GRC?

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Advance Detection and Reporting Are Key to Preventing Attacks

The Rand Blog

Shootings, bombings, and the like are most commonly prevented when members of the public report their suspicions. What kinds of warning signs should we all be on the lookout for in the weeks and months ahead?

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Consider Community Driven Relocation

Recovery Diva

From HSNewsWire: MANAGED RETREAT Disaster Recovery: What Community-Driven Relocation Could Look Like. Over the past forty years, the Gulf Region has experienced devastating hurricanes and flooding, costing 232 billion dollars.

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Q&A With Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation CEO William P. Montanaro

Security Industry Association

Montanaro shares his personal story, discusses the important work of the FEHSF and shares how the security industry can give back in support. New video from the Security Industry Association (SIA), featuring an enriching conversation with William P. Montanaro, CEO of the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation (FEHSF)! The FEHSF is a 501(c)3, not-for-profit, humanitarian foundation that provides emergency funding directed to active federal agents and family members.

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Sleep Alliance: Rebranding Sleep Divorce for Better Rest and Relationships

The Rand Blog

When both partners are well rested, they are likely to be less irritable and more supportive, leading to a stronger, more positive relationship. By viewing separate slumber as a sleep alliance, rather than a sleep divorce, more couples may consider an option that has led to better sleep and healthier relations for many.

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FEMA Is Denying Disaster Aid Requests Due to Lack of Funding

Recovery Diva

From Fortune: FEMA is denying requests for aid as relief fund runs dry amid record number of costly disasters “FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund could be depleted by mid August without additional money from Congress, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told the Associated Press last month. The fund faces a more than $6 billion deficit without supplemental appropriations, according to its most recent monthly report.

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What Are the Storage Requirements for Generative AI?

Pure Storage

What Are the Storage Requirements for Generative AI? by Blog Home Summary Data storage is an essential layer in the GenAI stack, but not all data storage solutions have the capabilities necessary to support it. Pure Storage solutions offer everything you need for headache-free data storage for AI workloads. Generative AI, including large language models (LLMs), is a whole new beast for organizations—especially for IT—requiring new ways of storing and managing data.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Security Industry Association and International Association of Professional Security Consultants Announce Partnership

Security Industry Association

The partnership will promote collaboration, content generation and knowledge sharing between SIA and IAPSC and grow awareness of the importance of the security consulting profession within the industry. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) and the International Association of Professional Security Consultants (IAPSC) have announced a new partnership effort to promote collaboration, content generation and knowledge sharing and elevate awareness of the security consultant p

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Why Being Good to Your Workers Is Good for Your Stock Price

The Rand Blog

Companies that invest in their frontline workers—and are clearer about where/how—could see a meaningful uptick in their stock value, while also becoming more attractive to job candidates in a tight labor market. And those investments for employees can have transformative effects on people's lives and economic mobility.

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Unveiling the Advantages of Disaster Recovery Testing with Zerto

Zerto

In the realm of uncertainty around cyber threats and other unplanned outages, disaster recovery (DR) testing stands as a crucial pillar. It ensures maximum uptime for IT operations that are now more crucial to all businesses than ever. DR testing additionally ensures organizations are as prepared as they can be to enable the swift restoration and safety of data and applications in the face of unforeseen events.

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Lindsey Bateman: Keep Your Eyes on the Horizon for Emerging Threats – and New Solutions

FS-ISAC

Episode Notes A financial services CISO’s job is to secure the organization of today and tomorrow. Lindsey Bateman, Chief Information Security Officer at M&G plc, a UK Savings and Investments company, recommends instituting a Security by Default culture to reduce the risks and increase the resilience of financial services institutions today, while keeping an eye on the horizon for emerging threats – and quantum computing is at the top of the list.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Guest Post: The Problematic Rise of “Bulletproof” Window Film in Schools – What Administrators and Legislators Need to Know

Security Industry Association

Jim Richards is CEO of Total Security Solutions. While some states are legislating the use of “bulletproof window film” in schools in response to school shootings, others are adding it as a preventative measure. These film products are usually thin, installed over the existing glass and fairly affordable. The problem is, inexpensive, thin security window film designed to delay entry will not stop a bullet.

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The Return of the Military Draft

The Rand Blog

The fact that the military draft is making a comeback should teach us an important lesson about the way we think about the future of warfare. As much as we may be enamored with the idea of increasingly bloodless wars fought largely by machines, battlefield reality has proved the opposite.

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Leading vs Lagging Indicators: What’s The Difference?

BMC

Leading and lagging indicators are terms for statistics you use to measure and manage performance. Both can help you gain an understanding of business conditions and trends. Below is a simple explanation of leading indicators and lagging indicators, the difference between them, and how to use each. What are indicators? Indicators are statistics used to measure what may be affecting your business.

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How Business Continuity AI Is Changing The Future Of Risk Management

BryghtPath

Explore the exciting potential of business continuity AI and discover how it can transform risk analysis, improve preparedness, and strengthen organizational resilience in the face of emerging threats. The post How Business Continuity AI Is Changing The Future Of Risk Management appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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SIA New Member Profile: Structure Consulting Group

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Structure Consulting Group (SCG) is a consulting firm with over 25 years of experience in site acquisition and construction project management. The company is headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts. SIA spoke with John McGillicuddy, president and owner of SCG, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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CrowdStrike Global Outage addressed by OCC

Online Computers

All clients' systems managed by Online Computers are not directly affected by today’s global outage. While third-party systems and apps in Office 365 that use CrowdStrike for protection might be impacted, the full extent of the issue is still unclear. Additionally, no Microsoft services are affected, and all are 100% operational. Despite media focus on Microsoft, the issue only affects systems hosted in Microsoft Azure and third-party apps in Office 365 that use CrowdStrike specifically for prot

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Addressing the Global CrowdStrike Outage Impacting Windows-Based Computers

NexusTek

READ TIME: 4 MIN July 19, 2024 Addressing the Global CrowdStrike Outage Impacting Windows-Based Computers At NexusTek, we prioritize the reliability and security of your IT infrastructure. Recently, a significant global outage has affected CrowdStrike’s Windows Sensor update , causing blue screens on numerous Windows-based computers. Understanding the Issue: On July 18, 2024, CrowdStrike released an update for its Windows Sensor, which unfortunately led to widespread blue screens.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of July 19; Updates from Cerabyte, Commvault, HYCU & More

Solutions Review

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable storage and data protection news for the week of July 19, 2024. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant storage and data protection news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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New AI Systems Generate Successes, Failures and Potential

Security Industry Association

Daniel Reichman is the CEO and chief scientist for Ai-RGUS and a member of the SIA AI Advisory Board. Artificial intelligence (AI) and, more specifically, generative AI (gen-AI), are in the news on an almost-daily basis. The technology captivated our collective attention approximately 18 months ago with the release of ChatGPT, which garnered 100 million users in just two months, something that took the social media giant Facebook two and a half years to achieve.

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Developing an inclement weather policy to protect employees 

everbridge

Weather events can have a significant impact on both employees and businesses, with 2023 marking a historic year for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the US. According to the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) , “There were 28 weather and climate disasters in 2023, surpassing the previous record of 22 in 2020, tallying a price tag of at least $92.9 billion,” including winter and sever weather storms.

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Data protection issues in air-gapped factory-floor environments

Acronis

The downtime costs for highly automated factory-floor environments are some of the world’s highest, estimated at anywhere from $1 million to $10 million per hour, and up. So it should be no surprise that many manufacturing enterprises seek to eliminate the possibility of a network-borne cyberattack by air gapping their factory-floor IT and operational technology (OT) systems.

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COVID: 4-Years later

BryghtPath

Mid-March 2020, Spring Break, COVID-19 is being discussed in the news and we are about to go to Florida for a long weekend. Should we go? It’s just a long weekend, and they won’t close everything down, right? Wrong. While in Florida, all the parks closed one by one during our last couple of days … The post COVID: 4-Years later appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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Understanding the Evolution: From Classic Chatbots to RAG Chatbots to AI-Powered Assistants

Security Industry Association

Nick Heitzman is the director of artificial intelligence for Allegion and a member of the SIA AI Advisory Board. With the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and the corresponding rise of generative artificial intelligence (gen-AI), the landscape of conversational agents significantly evolved. While the chat interface may appear the same as in past years, new technologies have dramatically expanded its capabilities.